Best Head In The Clouds Poems

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
By Roy Merritt

Once there was boy who kept his head in the clouds
He was trying to hear God by ignoring the crowds
He was sick of the noise and the constant disdain
The endless malice that was their refrain

Forgive me folks he'd tell them...

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Head in the clouds
Blow hard
They drift away...

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give me any highway to the beach 
i am on it
i will walk off my job for a walk on the sand and a swim in the ocean

give me any rural road to the beach
i am on it
i will purchase peaches and guzzle down some...

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I go to bed 
with my head in the clouds 
dreaming of immortality

I wake up in bed 
with my head in the sheets
having to face reality...

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My head was up in the clouds
No daylight to be found.
White and gray clouds  covered my sight
I could not see for my mind was in flight.
I looked all around and all I could see
Was the clouds covering me.

I felt like I was in a...

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It could start with a wish
A wish to be away
Away from work
So you start to dream
What if...
I wonder…
Then your mind wonders
It could start with a leaf
A leaf on a beanstalk
A giant beanstalk that Jack climbed
So you try to focus
What did I miss…
I don’t get it…
Then...

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A
million
miles away...

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My head is always in the clouds,

Away from life’s dreary sounds

My body feels so weightless

In the sky that I caress.

I’m often so forgetful

But it’s so easy when days are dull,

Perhaps I should care more

About walking through the future’s door.

But then my mind couldn’t ascend,

No longer...

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Live on the weakness of others?
So that when they are ill, we
loudly cheer and get our druthers?

Such is the likes of we, lost, poetic 
humankind.
We, who claim to be sensitive and sweet, 
are really ethically blind.

We march about like we are so
wonderfully humanistic?
Best look in...

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We’ve been chasing stars 
With butterfly net in our hands
We’ve been collecting words
The words to say when we pray

From down here
All we can see is dazzling stars
Without knowing they might be crying or lonely
But from the way we see them, they keep on sparkling

A feeling...

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Get your head outta the clouds, Kai
It's never gonna happen
F*cking figure it out, Kai
It's not meant to be...

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